Wild northern prairie Asters: Hi All Here for your morning coffee is a nosegay of what I grew up with and knew as wild prairie Asters. These are around in the fall, one of the last...

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Wild northern prairie Asters

Oct 2, 2019 08:57:40 #

rborud Loc: Minnesota

Hi All Here for your morning coffee is a nosegay of what I grew up with and knew as wild prairie Asters. These are around in the fall, one of the last blooming flowers of the northern prairies. I sure there are many botanists (me not being one) in this group who will give us the proper name, maybe even in latin. Thanks for looking and please enjoy. RBorud

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Oct 2, 2019 10:00:14 #

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

Beautiful flowers by any name. And an excellent photograph.

Oct 2, 2019 10:46:04 #

Bob Mevis Loc: Plymouth, Indiana

Excellent shot.

Oct 2, 2019 10:54:45 #

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

An excellent and different shot. The flowers are lovely and I like what you did with the background!

Oct 2, 2019 17:47:44 #

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Very nice!

Probably Symphyotrichum novae-angliae - "New England aster" (don't let the name fool you, it is native as far west as Montana.) That is the last significant bloomer here (northerner Michigan), and is in full bloom now, a couple of weeks later than usual.

The other possibility is Symphyotrichum oblongifolium - "Aromatic aster" - but yours looks more like New England aster.

Mike

Oct 2, 2019 17:57:34 #